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Keep Free TV

Yep seems FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is ready for a push to ram through legislation to allow TV spectrum to be sold off to internet service providers and others to sell back to us in the form of mobile internet. No thanks. I perfer my FREE OTA TV we were sold on with all the new sub channels. I will be sending letters to my congress-person and senators.
 
Megapsycle said:
I perfer my FREE OTA TV we were sold on with all the new sub channels.
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Apparently TV (in any form, digital or analog) is viewed by the FCC as a tremendous waste of broadcast spectrum. The TV band is getting smaller and smaller--70-83 eliminated in the 80's, 52-69 eliminated June 12, 2009, and 2-4 is practically unusable with 5 & 6 barely usable.

FM radio is only being saved because it is the most effective way to broadcast information during a disaster (and sound uses less bandwidth than aural and video combined); from my Hurricane Ike experience, AM tends to pause between lightning strikes. Power consumption on battery-operated radios is very efficient (may run for days) compared to an equivalent portable television (my analog Watchman could only last 3 hours with fresh batteries; probably much worse with the 7" portable DTVs).

I noticed that most iPod docks are FM only. Is this a sign of the future?
 
[quote author] Is this a sign of the future?
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Hope not
 
KTN Corp said:
FM radio is only being saved because it is the most effective way to broadcast information during a disaster (and sound uses less bandwidth than aural and video combined); from my Hurricane Ike experience, AM tends to pause between lightning strikes.
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That's not the only reason.

A bigger factor is that the wireless telecom companies are not interested in the VHF frequencies that FM broadcasts are on -- they require too big of an antenna.

For the same reason, VHF television is probably safe. Unfortunately, I'm not really all that anxious to go back to a world where broadcast TV is limited to 12 channels.
 
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